diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 46da80f7cd6c581f17f8397eda813f4fb51dc509..16baf7fc05d8b7a7a49040b19704f21be81371a7 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 ## [Unreleased]
 ### Added
 ### Changed
+- Bump DSPACE_APP_VERSION
+
 ### Removed
 ### Fixed
 
diff --git a/dockerfiles/Earthfile b/dockerfiles/Earthfile
index f2b76f9a9d63ea93b0446eff34b9839abf8666a3..74a6174b692ad1fce8c0683489ca0674152e4c9f 100644
--- a/dockerfiles/Earthfile
+++ b/dockerfiles/Earthfile
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # Usage: earthly --push [--no-cache] +docker
-ARG DSPACE_APP_VERSION=1.1
+ARG DSPACE_APP_VERSION=1.2-rc2
 
 docker-from-docker:
     FROM DOCKERFILE --build-arg DSPACE_APP_VERSION=$DSPACE_APP_VERSION .